Retail Watchers

Both of my nearest Safeway locations have filling stations:the early-2000's Dewey location (replaced a bel Air)has it's gas station on the site if a former Texaco turned Exxon).The 1999-era manzanita location(redevelopment of a 1963-era Safeway-Super S twin with the current 1999-build Rite Aid repl...

bryceleinan wrote: ↑April 2nd, 2022, 8:19 pm Isn’t Nugget nearby as well, or are they farther down Pleasant Grove?

Yeah only 2 miles away on Blue Oaks and Woodcreek Oaks. There is another one East of 65 on Fairway and Pleasant Grove.
The Raleys that converted in El Dorado Hills was across the freeway from a Nugget so that didn't deter them.

During a Sacramento Republic(local USL soccer team) highlights on the news a couple of nights ago, one of the ads near the scoreboard on the TV was of Raleys ONE Market(another one was the normal Raleys). Interesting considering the only one in the Sacramento area is 20-30 minutes east of the city(E...

This Bel Air is the only one in the chain to have a Postal Service window, but that will be gone thanks to the renovation. It will have an expanded Peets/outdoor patio and a conference room for rental. County link:https://planningdocuments.saccounty.net/projectdetails.aspx?projectID=6993&communi...

The Bel Air right down the street from me is getting a renovation. This has seemingly been expected for a few years now, and its finally coming to fruition. I've been going there my entire life and it hasn't really been touched that much as far as I can remember(20+ years). I wonder what sort of dec...

This probably won't be their last trip to the rodeo for changing prices. They're likely chasing inflation on some items and searching for higher margins on others. The question is where they reach a point where they have more competition from other stores (and other kinds of stores) and where the v...

Did some shopping in this place, found what I went in for this time but still find it to be oddly and poorly assorted. Empty of customers still. Almost every item I bought came from one of the bottom shelves. I am not sure if there is some kind of psychology experiment going on in this place but so...

Are they gonna advertise that they are more or less back to normal?

Also interesting in this Concord Store was the basement loading dock, accessed from what feels like the middle of the parking lot. Whatever happens with that building, I expect it to be demolished when Sears decides to finally give up. The building doesn't feel like it is falling apart but it feels...

Interesting comment on a very recent yelp review: "I've heard rumors that the owner is doctoring the books to make Raley's One look better then it is. I've heard that they are down $20,000 a day. I've heard rumors that the owner would rather let the store go out of business then change it back....